A House of Dynamite Review: Kathryn Bigelow Lights a Fuse That Fails to Go Off

In October 1964, Sidney Lumet, the furrow-browed director of 12 Angry Men and (later) Dog Day Afternoon, brought his sober-eyed vision for the end of the world to theaters. Barely two years since the real-life Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in the same autumnal season, Fail Safe was intended to be a probing and despairing look […]

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Peacemaker Finale Sets Up Superman 2 By Referencing a Forgotten DC Comic

This post contains full spoilers for Peacemaker season 2. By the end of the Peacemaker season 2 finale, Rick Flag Sr. has found what he’s looking for—and it’s nothing anyone had expected. In the final moments of the episode, Flag strands Chris Smith on a distant planet, which he and ARGUS plan to use a […]

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Needs to Spotlight its Most Underrated Character

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has introduced its fair share of characters over the course of its run, including both original team members and familiar faces from elsewhere in the franchise. We’ve met multiple younger versions of those who will go on to play key roles in Star Trek: The Original Series, those with recognizable […]

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Remembering DC’s Strange First Attempt at Vigilante in the Arrowverse

Even though Chris Smith is the only one named in the title of the series, Peacemaker is really an ensemble show about the group of misfits who bond together under the name the 11th Street Kids. And the standout of the 11th Street Kids is Adrian Chase, an absolute psychopath who is somehow also a […]

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Dunk Is So Beautifully Dumb in the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Trailer

George R. R. Martin‘s Westeros is filled with many, let’s say, less-than-humble characters. The fantasy universe depicted in Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” books and the HBO series Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon is not wanting for larger-than-life figures like Cersei Lannister, Stannis Baratheon, and Daemon Targaryen. More often than […]

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Rian Johnson Wants Knives Out to Outlive Netflix

In Knives Out, Southern-fried detective Benoit Blanc famously described his investigation into the death of writer Harlan Thrombey as a case with a hole in the center, “a doughnut.” Turns out, Knives Out is potentially a franchise with a hole in the center, at least as far as distribution is concerned. That’s because creator Rian […]

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It’s Time to Let This Doctor Who Relationship Finally Become Canon

No one is quite sure what to expect from the forthcoming Doctor Who spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea. Primarily focused on the no-longer-quite-so-secret U.K. government agency known as UNIT, the series is theoretically going to explore how humanity copes with an alien threat when the Doctor’s not around to help. The […]

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Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Brings a Beloved Manga to Life

This article is presented in partnership with Sony Pictures and appears in the NYCC 2025 issue of Den of Geek magazine. Few anime have completely redefined the public’s perception of what’s possible in the medium like Chainsaw Man. Based on Tatsuki Fujimoto’s popular manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump, the anime hasn’t just redefined anime […]

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